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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Me: Oh, I'm an astrophysicist, but I don't write hard sci-fi! Also me: *making a spreadsheet of all my planets' ephemerides at epoch so I can simulate Hohmann transfer times at the time of any scene*

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Having a squamous cell carcinoma in situ is so weird because like yeah it's *technically* cancer but it's not like cancer cancer

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Excited for the Roman launch!! But 4 AM is not for me, so I look forward to seeing updates in the morning 🤞🚀

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This was such a good story! Can't believe I know such amazing writers 🫶

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's possible I bit off more than I could chew in this one, trying to touch on the basics of habitability in 16 minutes! But hey I got to throw in a self citation 😏 youtu.be/oLwTB3oPz88 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

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Life on Other Planets: What Does It Take?

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pluto was not demoted. It was reclassified. Still complaining about Pluto (and only Pluto) being a dwarf planet is science denialism. Gah clearly I'm going to have to stay off the internet today because I do not have the patience for this shit.

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I was really crunched for time the last 2 weeks, so I didn't get to do as much editing on my space fact videos. So this week I enjoyed getting back to "full effort"—except for the fact that it took 3 hours for the 90 second video 😭

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I love when I'm making graphics for something and realize that even though I knew the numbers going in, I completely underestimated them. Had to shift the bodies into "lollipops" to make them fit in this one!!

A rectangle broken into 2 parts with 3 lines branching off connected to illustrations of icy bodies and the sun. The left half is ~40x longer than the right half.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 06/07/2026

Written in its stars ✨ On its 4th science anniversary, Webb has turned its gaze towards Centaurus A. Thanks to its high resolution we can now study the galaxy star by star, reconstructing when different events in its history happened 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

$A horizontal image of the galaxy Centaurus A stretches across a black background filled with thousands of tiny purple, pink, and white points of light. The galaxy is brightest at its centre, where a brilliant white and pale pink glow radiates outward. Eight diffraction spikes extend from the central glow. Delicate loops and wispy ribbons of pink and lavender arc above and below the centre of the image in the shape of an ‘S’. A band of gray and white dust in the shape of a parallelogram cuts across the middle of the galaxy. Mottled patches and bright knots are scattered throughout the dusty band. The galaxy’s outer edges fade into soft, cloud-like plumes with feathery textures that stretch toward the left and right sides of the image. Against the surrounding darkness, a few bright foreground stars shine with Webb’s distinctive diffraction spikes, while countless fainter stars create a speckled backdrop. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI), J. Depasquale (STScI), M. Garcia Marin (ESA Office at STScI)$

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My husband is a gamer and he plays a wide variety of games, so I love that I never know what to expect when he tells me about them. Today it was a certainly a surprise when he said "Let me show you this city I built. First of all: it's beavers."

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Halfway through 2026 😳 Some writing stats for me so far this year: 6 new short stories written 64 short story submissions 53 short story rejections (2 after being held!) 25 queries sent 16 queries rejected 5377 words written in a new novel

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy Summer Solstice! The bittersweet day where I'm torn between being sad about shorter days to come and being happy about warmer days to come!

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

No matter how much nonwork work I get done on the weekends, it's never enough 😩

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Watching USA-AUS in our 🇺🇸🇦🇺 household and kinda hoping for a draw tbh because I can never be properly happy over a win if my husband loses

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

TFW you're done with your talk by 10:10 on day 1 💅

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

IG is absolutely playing with me, why the hell would I be saying "nutrinos" when NEUTRINOS is an actual fucking word 🤦‍♀️

Screenshot from reels editor showing auto generated captions repeatedly using the word "nutrinos"

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

When AAS is in your neighborhood so you get to sleep in your own bed, stop at your usual coffeeshop, and walk to the conference center ☺️

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NASA (mirror) @handle.invalid · 09/06/2026

Introducing Artemis III. Four astronauts. Three launches. Two dockings. One splashdown. In 2027, the Artemis III mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit — the capability we need to return humanity to the Moon’s surface. Original post

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I am excited for the Artemis III mission and its crew, and I know they are all very capable and qualified astronauts. But it is definitely notable and disappointing to see an all-male crew. Both of these things can be true!

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Last night I cried myself to sleep because no one wants my stories and today at lunch I submitted 5 stories and that's basically being a writer

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I made myself cry writing a story on my flight today so it's either the best thing I've ever written or a complete load of maudlin bullshit (probably the latter let's be honest 😅)

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In my mind: I like giving talks! My slides are awesome and I'm excited to share this 😃 In my body: Dry mouth, shaking hands, quavering voice, heart racing 🤪

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

At a conference and Isaacman is giving the opening plenary and he started with thanking Trump barf

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It is way too early to be arguing about Oumuamua with my Lyft driver

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Practiced my 15 minute talk 3 times, over 19 minutes every time. Gave it to my husband...13.5 minutes. I maybe talk too fast 😂

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

One green flag of many about my husband is that he watches the women's State of Origin and tells me about the highlights with the same enthusiasm as he does the men's

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The IG captions hearing "Mount Ikea" instead of "Mauna Kea" is killing me

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Going to hike the best-preserved meteorite impact crater in the world today! 😃

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Loving the dark skies here in Flagstaff!!

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I swear Pluto brings out the most anti-science bs from people who claim to support science.

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Interesting that TikTok heard "heiress" and IG heard "Aries" in the captions of this video (I was in fact saying "Eris")

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Hubble is the gift that keeps on giving! I was a mere toddler when it launched, and its images helped inspire my imagination as a science fiction writer and my interests as a scientist. 🧡🧡🧡

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I've always held an attitude of "I'm going to write the stories anyway, it can't hurt to just submit them!" but truth is...yeah it actually hurts a lot

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I was getting annoyed at this bright artifact in this all sky image...and then I realized it's just Orion Nebula 😅

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Guys I'm 38 years old and have no tattoos and have had this note saved for years now... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Screenshot reading "It would be possible to do a scale model of the Earth and moon as a tattoo... Would be about .6 inches diameter for the moon

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Has the time finally come for me to stop hitting ignore every time I'm on ads and actually visit SciX...

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I am UNWELL!!!!!! These pictures are SO AMAZINGGGGGG A few of my favorites of the images NASA released from yesterday's Artemis II lunar flyby. The crescent Earth? The solar eclipse?!? The details on the Moon?!?!? perfection